[.ca] Survivor: Season 1

From Amazon.com:
Here's where it all began. The first season of Survivor dominated the ratings in the summer of 2000, helped spur the reality-TV craze, and inspired countless water-cooler jokes about getting voted off the island. The first season established the formula that would continue, with sometimes surprising variations, over numerous subsequent seasons: 16 people intended to represent the American mosaic are stranded far from civilization (in this case, the island of Pulau Tiga, off the coast of Borneo), struggle for food and shelter, compete in a series of physical and mental challenges, and at the end of each three-day episode vote out one of their fellow contestants. After 39 days, the one sole survivor who is able to outwit, outplay, and outlast the others wins a million-dollar prize. Because the Survivor craze preceded the craze for complete-season DVD boxed sets, the first season was represented on DVD and video by a 150-minute highlights package called Season One: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. Now, all 13 episodes are available in a five-disc set (the fifth disc is ...Outrageous Moments) that contains every challenge, every political maneuver, every next-episode preview and previous-episode recap, every tribal council including the famous finale, and the reunion show. If you started watching Survivor in the Australian Outback or later, this is the perfect opportunity to see how host Jeff Probst, scheming Richard Hatch, tough truck driver Sue Hawk, ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, athletic Kelly Wiglesworth, and the others got the ball rolling. If you did watch the first season, here's your chance to relive it, and you also get an enthusiastic group commentary by host Jeff Probst (poking fun at himself) and contestants Hatch (talking the most, which should surprise no one), Boesch, and Gervase Peterson on the first and last episodes, plus some minor featurettes (seven minutes of footage of the contestants leaving L.A. for Borneo, David Letterman's Top 10 featuring the contestants, and 10 minutes of new interviews with Hatch, Boesch, and Peterson). Many reality shows have come and gone in the meantime, but in terms of staying fresh over a long run, Survivor has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted them all. --David Horiuchi

The original reality TV show:
I have seen every single episode of Survivor since Survivor Australia. This first Survivor set the high standard which has made the series so popular. The format for all the series was determined in the first three days on Borneo. I haven't finished viewing all the Dvd's yet, the merge has just occurred however I am enjoying the series more than I expected. The video quality is perfect and the extra commentary is interesting and amusing. Hindsight is 20/20 when you are viewing the show 3 years after you took part in it. None of the participants on the show had any idea how big it was going to be and how it would change all their lives. This is a well done, quality production.

Watched it non stop:
I was impressed by this set. I ordered it on the 26th and got it on the 30th(due to super save shipping it was cheap) I then watched it and could not stop after each episode. I only took breaks after 4 or 5 in a row. This is the one season I had never seen and am glad about my purchase. The back of the cases are bad though as they reveal too much info and the cases are soooooooooooooooooo small but I can live with that. The video quality is astounding, but the special features are pretty boring. The top 10 is okay and the LA to Borneo was useless. However this collection is great and further ones can only get better.

WOW!:
I pondered long and hard if $40 was too much to pay for something I didn't know how many times I'd watch. The ultimate answer came after I spent it and realized it was well worth it. The sheer amount of hours in this, including the additional DVD is well worth it. Watching this show again just confirmed why I love the show in the first place and also shows how far it has come. The players in this are all naive and only Rich seems to have anything planned. It's so interesting to watch again knowing all that I do about watching the series over it's many seasons. Season 1 still remains one of the best just because of how naive the players are. It seems they already have the All Stars complete season planned for release in August, but I truly hope they plan on releasing the other seasons as well. I'd really love to see Survivor Amazon on DVD! In any case, this set is WELL worth it for any Survivor period.

Survior - The Complete first Season:
I love this set. The only thing I did not like is the listing of who gets the boot on the back cover of each disc. The whole set was wonderfully done. The extra material was great. I really hope the remainder of the Survivor shows is put onto dvd. I plan on getting them when they come out.

Snakes and rats.:
Survivors first season was classic TV. An original, unexpected trendsetter. Marc Burnett is a fantastic storyteller and the cast he selected is fantastic. Unfortunatly if you've already watched it on CBS watching it again is almost like watching old weather reports and frankly there isn't enough "plot" to sustain multiple viewings. The only reality show i'd probably buy is PARADISE HOTEL since it's format was more like a lightly scripted soap. As for Survivor all the media overkill has killed all joy in watching it more than once. EP